The Transparent Human Self
Martin Exeter February 10, 1985 100 Mile House, BC
“And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory?” No particular attempt was made to identify Him in the song which the choir sang—but the Psalmist makes a stab at it! “The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.” And then, finally, “The Lord of hosts.” However, all this is merely giving one concept after another and, I don’t think, in the end, has identified the King of glory any more than as the King of glory. If there is a state of separateness from the King of glory, then all that can be provided is some human concept. The state of separation is known to human beings in their awareness of selfhood. Human identity is separate from divine identity, angelic identity, heavenly identity. Human identity is an earthly identity. There is then on the one hand an earthly identity and on the other hand a heavenly identity—a state of separation. So the human idea of God and of the Lord of hosts, or the King of glory, is required to identify something other than what the human being presently knows himself to be. “There is another state, but it isn’t me. I am this human state, and everybody knows that this human state is very impoverished and limited. Therefore it is not surprising if I am impoverished and limited.”
We have recently been giving some thought to the matter of ascension, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/from-whirlwind-of-ascension-martin.html] the creative process by which there is a raising up. Human beings everywhere have been raised up out of the mineral kingdom, the kingdom of vegetation, even the animal kingdom these days, so that there is substance standing up in a flesh body. Included in this substance is also the substance of mind and emotions—the substance of consciousness. While life remains, this substance of consciousness is not separate from the physical substance of one’s flesh—and the physical substance of one’s flesh is not really separate from the other kingdoms of this world: they are all included. This raising-up process of ascension just goes so far, and human beings develop an identity. There is the attitude that I am myself—but the self is composed of all this substance which has been lifted up to a certain level of experience, characterized by a certain level of consciousness. We are well aware that human beings vary considerably in the level of their consciousness. But the whole experience of self in the human sense is restricted to this lump of raised-up substance, with the inclusion of what we call consciousness. The consciousness which we have and which comes to focus in a sense of self occurs because there are certain facilities available in the physical form to permit this to happen. In the development of these facilities are various systems in the physical form, such as the endocrine system and the nervous system, the circulatory system, the lymphatic system, the digestive system. One can identify a number of different systems, which obviously are facilities for the expression of life in human form, and these facilities allow for the development of consciousness.
So we have one gathering together of substance at various levels which, because of its nature and design, produces or creates an earthly identity. All human beings have this sense of human self, the earthly self—but clearly this is a creation; it developed out of what happened in this cycle of ascension. But if there has been a cycle of ascension, something must have produced it, and it wasn’t the thing that was created; it wasn’t the sense of self humanly speaking that did it, because there wasn’t any self to start with; it merely developed along the way. Everyone these days has become so enamored with this sense of identity which puts in an appearance that they claim it as being the ultimate. Human beings after all are the ultimate creation here on earth, and therefore the earth was created for human beings and it is available for their use—and here they are, trying to benefit themselves from the situation as they have found it, at the level of ascension to which experience has brought them.
Because of the love of this earthly self there is the endeavor to promote it in various ways and to maintain it in existence. Finally it can’t be maintained anymore, and that is that. This seemed a rather unfortunate state of affairs, so various ideas have been developed in the mental realm of consciousness to help sustain this earthly sense of self. These theories and beliefs that have been developed look to what they call a life after death for this creation, which only appeared by reason of the physical body. We can well see the reason why all these ideas have been promulgated, mostly through religions of various sorts. Whether one proceeds immediately to an ultimate heaven or hell in the earthly identity, or whether one just goes into limbo for a while and shows up again later in some other form, it makes very little difference. The idea is to maintain the earthly identity which is so much in love with itself. The primary characteristic of a human being is self-love. This is considered to be natural. It may be thought of in terms of sustaining life itself, or it may be thought of in these religious terms; and all that human beings attempt is based in this self-love. The self-love may include some others as well—and with some, they reach a point where they are, in theory at least, including everybody, the whole human race: “We have got to sustain the existence of the whole human race in this state of human identity.”
Well we have all passed through this stage I am sure. The question is as to how far beyond it we have come, or whether we just got stuck somewhere along the way because we were so in love with this human identity. That is the only reason why anyone gets stuck—self-love. We know that the valid instruction is to love the Lord. But then who is the Lord? One can develop a theory and say, “It is myself. After all, I am.” And this human character boosts itself into a position of deity and functions on this basis. This is the way all human beings have been functioning. No matter what their claims about some other deity somewhere, the actions of human beings have all been based in what has emerged through this human facility, what was present in the flesh. In the flesh there are, as is well known these days, the factors of heredity—and all this is included in the character that is developed in the human identity.
So we have this very obvious state of separation from whatever it is that allowed for the development of this human identity. After all, there was a point back along the way where it didn’t exist, for all of us—there was no human identity. We look back and we study history, or we hear of our ancestors, and feel a sort of connection back there with all this that has been ongoing; but it is quite clear that there was a point where in the human identity we didn’t exist. We hadn’t even been thought of, and there comes a time when we are likely to be forgotten, where we have ceased to exist. This has always seemed a terrible fate insofar as the human identity was concerned, because of the self-love. No matter how miserable and rotten the experience of human identity has been, there has been sufficient self-love to want to preserve it.
Mention was made by Jack Callister yesterday evening, reading from an old service, [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/an-unimaginable-transformation-to-occur.html] of a movement of the solar system and the galaxy through space, in the recognition that there are various qualities of what is present in space through which these systems move. This was seen in light of the fact that there came a time in the past when the quality of substance in space was such that what has subsequently been called the fall became possible—it became a fact. However in the course of time there is movement further, and there is an emergence out of that particular quality of substance, so that it establishes a state where what we have known as the fallen state cannot exist—this whether human beings like it or not. We now have an awareness that the rising tide parallels this cosmic movement. After all, the whole of the all-that-is is one thing. Unlike human beings, who try to go off in their own separate ways and achieve their own isolated purposes, all that composes the universal whole is part of one thing, naturally and easily coordinated. That state of coordination is consequent upon what we have called love—oneness—the universe is one. Only in the self-loving consciousness of human beings is there this state of assumed separation. It is unreal; it doesn’t really exist anywhere but in human consciousness.
So there is this rising tide, which is a cosmic tide, but it comes to focus particularly in our galaxy, in our solar system, in our planet, in ourselves, in all human beings. Human beings are part of this whole universal operation. It has been possible to exist in this limited human state for many thousands of years simply because of the nature, the character, the quality of space substance through which this solar system in particular is passing. Now, the fact is that it is emerging out of that substance, which means, for human beings, that the state of separation from the all-that-is can no longer be maintained. We ourselves have caught some vision, and have some experience of the fact, that we are one. We have not always approved of this, mind you, and have sought to maintain our uniquely splendid characters! But the human identity is not splendid at all, and is not particularly unique either. You find a lot of people who are very much like each other, some of them even in appearance. So we have this rising tide, which is not a little local affair, although it seems to be so from the human standpoint—from the standpoint of human identity it becomes more and more uncomfortable because the state of separateness from the whole is moving toward the point where it can no longer exist. As human beings are accustomed to being separate, they are accustomed to their self-love, they are accustomed to doing the things that they do on the basis of that self-love, and this is harder and harder to sustain; it becomes quite uncomfortable to the human identity. Then there is a good deal of complaint about this and a good deal of blame put here or there for it—but the blame is not rightly put on somebody else. What is happening is merely consequent upon the rising tide, which one either learns to move with, to enter the ark, shall we say, and float on the surface of the water, or one drowns—and what drowns is this human identity.
So the human sense of self is raised up to a certain level. It has been all down through the ages, and human beings have reached whatever level it was but never allowed it to go any further because they were held firmly in that restricted and disintegrating state by their self-love. Well obviously if one is to emerge out of that, that self-love must be dissolved somehow. There must be love of another self. The self-love which is known by human beings is a phony. It is an unreal experience, because there isn’t any self of that nature that is lasting. It is a temporary self, a temporary identity. Now in this raising-up process—the process of ascension—there is movement which brings a clarifying state of self. The human self becomes increasingly transparent. If you consider the word transparent you will immediately be aware of the fact that the human self becomes increasingly nonexistent—because it is transparent, whatever the truth is can come forth.
So there is the gradual dissolution of the human self but at the same time the emergence of the true self, the true identity that has always been present and which has made possible the unfinished, incomplete human identity which has been the experience. It has been incomplete because it only went up so far. It never came to the point of clarification and transparency where the human self would vanish and the true self would appear. We can see that this happens for a baby, a child, adolescent, and so on. There is the fading of one experience of self and the emergence in greater expression of another experience of self, a new identity. We were, I am sure, quite content to have a baby identity when we were babies. We didn’t really know all that much about it because the identity hadn’t developed adequately yet. But as it begins to emerge, a human self is created, a human identity. This could be—it hasn’t been for a very, very long time—a natural progression. It hasn’t been a natural progression because it got stopped at a certain point where the self-love was so strong that it held the person identified with the earth and it did not allow any further development of the experience of identity. It seems that most people are quite satisfied with their identity in the human state, and they usually hook it to various fields of human endeavor, and this human identity developed in self-love becomes the great thing. That is why it is such a shattering experience when the individual has to retire. He is losing what he thinks of as his identity. The former things need to pass away. So the process of ascension insists that you either rise up or you go down. Human beings individually have chosen to go down, so far. Generation after generation they have gone down. It has been such a habit that it is considered to be natural. Well it is natural in a sense because it is something that doesn’t belong—it is just simply passing away, that is all. But why go to all the trouble to create human beings and then simply ditch them? Of course that isn’t what was done. That is what human beings have done to themselves because of this state of self-love.
The ascending process has always been there, because people have been lifted up in physical form, lived for a little while and then died; and that process of lifting up has been going on, but it has always dropped right back again. It was never allowed to carry on through because human beings were so self-satisfied and so intent upon following out their theories of achievement in self-love—and we have a world of that nature. But it is reaching a point where this restricted state cannot continue to exist—there are cosmic reasons for that, beyond human control; but regardless of why it is happening, it is happening. And human beings are either participating in this ascending process, so that their sense of identity is changing, or they are staying with the old identity and passing out of the picture.
This is something which is happening on a large scale—it is happening on the scale of mankind. It is not only on the scale of mankind; it is happening throughout the universal whole—but this is a very particular event that is occurring in this particular part of the universe. The universe is not bland; it is not all the same thing going on at the same time. There is a vast multiplicity. But here something is happening which involves mankind, and it involves us because we are a part of mankind. It involves everyone. No one can find a position of exemption; at least the only position of exemption is the death or the passing of the human identity. Then you are exempt, but then you don’t exist anymore; whereas this state of human identity, if allowed to participate in the continuing ascending process, becomes increasingly transparent. One self fades out, another self fades in—this is something that happens at death anyway, but that is not very satisfactory for a human self which suddenly fades out; it is cut, it is not fading out. Rightly there is a fading out as the human identity becomes less structured, less of what the individual has been insistent upon maintaining all the years before. As there is a willingness to let that fade out something else fades in, because it is all part of the process of ascension.
Human beings in the limited condition have never known what wholeness would be. Something is beginning to percolate in human consciousness with respect to a state of wholeness. They don’t know what it is. They try to apply it in various ways in various fields. But the state of wholeness is something which already exists; it doesn’t need to be applied but becomes the human experience to the extent that the human identity fades out. As long as one insists upon maintaining one’s position in the human state and there is an unwillingness to let that fade out, one is insisting upon passing away with what is only temporary. It proves to be only temporary because the whole cycle of ascension is not allowed to work itself out. So it is cut off at a certain point by reason of human self-love.
We participate in what has been described as being with one accord. Being with one accord relates to love, and we find ourselves, to the extent of this experience of love, to be in one place. The place no longer is seen in earthly terms. We don’t all have to jam into one geographical position to be in one place. The point is that we are in one place of identity. Instead of saying, “I am an earthly person; I am this earthly character; I have these earthly peculiarities,” you begin to realize that you are not all that, but you are the One who has caused all that to reach the point which it has in the process of ascension. You could look with some compassion upon this earthly character who has rather arrogantly claimed an earthly identity and you can see that that is just a stage in the process of ascension. That is the experience that is known at that stage. But now, having developed some sort of a human identity, a human character in the earthly sense, you look upon that and you say, “Well that’s rather a strange sort of thing. How about coming up higher? Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away,” so that all this earthly stuff begins to dissolve and the earthly identity becomes more and more transparent. One is no longer blocked by this earthly self.
The experience of identity becomes more and more transparent and the old is fading out, the former things are passing away, and the new is fading in. Behold, I make all things new. That is the process if we are willing to go with it. There must be the willingness to let this earthly identity fade—and there is something that fades in. You begin to find a new state. We all have had this experience, in whatever measure, of something fading in when something else was fading out. Unfortunately the self-love tends to keep a grasp on certain things and it only is a partial experience in consequence. But there may be ease in relinquishing the past, relinquishing ourselves: “I of myself can do nothing. I don’t want anything. I am not trying to get anything. I am just willing to participate in the experience of the true identity I am.” One may describe that using the word life: “I am life.” Or “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” But I am life. I am life humaning, in this specific way. But I am life humaning everywhere. I am life treeing. Life is no respecter of persons. Here is the common denominator. I am that—and being that I am not separate from anything. I may not immediately be, in the personal sense, in the form of a tree, but still what I am is in the form of a tree too. Then we begin to discover that there is this state of being with one accord in one place, a place of life—and life is love expressing through the design and the control of truth. I am love, I am truth, if I am life. It all is one. There is one whole.
All that needs to happen is to experience it, which requires that the old state fade out and the new one fade in. Where there is a willingness for this to happen—that proves itself out—then it happens. It is not done by the human self. The human self didn’t create itself in the first place. It sustains itself by self-love, but if that self-love wasn’t there it would have naturally followed through in the ascending cycle and would have emerged into the experience of the divine self, because the human self would have faded completely away just as your baby self faded completely away, and all the subsequent selves. Some of them didn’t fade completely away. That is the trouble with immature human beings—they didn’t allow the natural process to permit a fading out at one level and a fading in at the next, all the way through. A person becomes so enamored with himself that he says, “No, stop! I am me now”—which is a lie. It is a false identity. It must continue all the way through if there is to be the discovery on earth of the truth. If there is not that discovery then what is not true passes away. Simple. It passes away individually, and has been doing it for a long time, but somewhere it passes away collectively because there is this rising tide and the false cannot be sustained.
So we share this responsibility of moving in accord, because we accept an identity which is not restricted and limited by the former things. One must participate in this rising tide, in this ascending process, to begin to find a level of perspective where you can look back at yourself: “My heavens! How could I have been like that?” Well you can only do that when you have emerged out of that, and you can only emerge out of it when you stop loving yourself so much. You love what is happening in the whole. You love the rising tide. You love the changing perspective. You love letting the former things pass away. You love allowing all things to be made new. All things! Let the former things pass away, that there may be the experience of being with one accord in one place, the place of life, the place of joy, the place of satisfaction and fulfillment. “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.” We need to be able to speak those words to the identity which has been so intent upon maintaining itself, claiming to be oneself when it isn’t. When we can begin to stand above it, and see it with perspective, it is ready to dissolve, and the increasing transparency for the experience of the truth is known. I rejoice that we may participate in this process together, with one accord, in a setting such as this—but let us participate in it regardless of the setting, because we are there. I am there. I am life humaning, humaning in all kinds of different ways. Just take a look around: animaling, treeing, mineraling—everything. That is what I am doing, and it is all one. I am.
© emissaries of divine light
The Living Design
Martin Cecil Bill Bahan Michael Cecil
January 10, 1982 100 Mile House, B.C.
Martin Cecil — For many years I have brought to focus, and represented to you and others who compose this Emissary Body, the Spirit of the Living God. It is because of this spirit that the Emissary Body has taken form. It has, over the years, grown in grace and stature. It is more than merely a Body, for there is a Mind and a Heart present also. As this Body has been maturing over the years, the more mature expression of mind and heart has emerged: all this because of the Spirit of the Living God. While I have given focus to this Spirit, many have shared with me in the increasing expression of that Spirit. So has the Body taken form, with Mind and Heart, to the point where it is in position to provide in turn a focus for the body of mankind, a focus of mind and heart for the body of mankind. This is the responsibility of the Emissary Body, with the Mind and Heart present within it, because of all those who compose this Body.
But within the Emissary Body the focus of mind and heart is provided and has naturally emerged, as you know. I have emphasized that Michael provides a focus for the conscious aspect of that mind, and Bill for the subconscious aspect. In view of the fact that these three points of focus are present in the Chapel this evening it would seem fitting that advantage should be taken of the fact. All who are here gathered have a part to play in this moment. Others, who are not directly conscious in this moment of what is occurring, play their part too. Later no doubt they will become conscious that they were unconscious. Bill and Michael will be participating in what is to occur: Bill first, as the unconscious aspect of mind and heart. You know that this does not mean that Bill is unconscious! He will be followed by Michael representing the conscious aspect. It is possible that I might have a further word to say in conclusion. Bill.
William Bahan — Thank you, Martin. As you can see, I’m very conscious. I had opportunity after our evening meal to hear this morning’s service via the videotape. I never get enough of that wonderful stuff! [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/sanctification-martin-cecil-january-10.html] And I find myself, as Martin said in the service, surrounded by friends and in this marvelous setting. I have found Martin’s spirit a lodestone, absolutely irresistible, because it’s my spirit. There is agreement in that spirit.
Last evening, in New York City, circumstances were trying to tell me that I couldn’t get here. It was probably one of the worst ice storms that New York has ever seen, thousands of cars all over the place. We had one situation where there were probably twenty cars in front of us blocking our way. I had a very able driver in Lou Rotola, and he was in absolute agreement that I was going to be here too. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/the-instinctual-compulsion-spirit.html] And the way cleared, not because we sat back and twiddled our thumbs but because something was done, including several times getting out of the automobile and pushing cars that were in the way, and Lou going up on sidewalks and crossing medians in order to do it. I was reminded, actually, during the whole of this, of the 91st Psalm—imagine that! “His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” There was a spirit of protection there, the shield; but the buckler was there also, which opens the way, and cleared the traffic for us.
What a wonderful thing it is to have the facilities of mind and heart. Actually these facilities are absolutely neutral. They can, with equal facility, express the truth or lies, depending upon who is going to use them. Because we have received the baptism in water, allowing our identity to move from our heart and mind, being centered in spirit, we may use these facilities to reveal the truth. The facilities, of and by themselves, cannot reveal the truth. The truth must be there to use the facilities to express it. But, as we know, none of this could have taken place in our own experience without that external baptism of water, and we have been well soaked.
Some years back I stopped at a gasoline station to buy some petrol, and I gave the gentleman the credit card which said Emissaries of Divine Light on it. He looked at it and said, “Oh, that’s a church.” I said, “Yes.” He said, “Do you believe in baptism?” I said, “Full immersion!” He was delighted. We’ve had full immersion, many barrels. What a provision. But, being offered those barrels of water many times, there is the need, as we know, for the internal baptism where the truth is expressed.
In order for this to take place we know that the mind and heart must be in agreement. The minds in human beings as they are in their present state of consciousness have been agreeing with the heart. That’s trouble. The heart needs to agree with the mind. It’s the mind where logic and reason are. We have seen with our mind what the truth is, the way the design works, and this surely has been, as I say, a great blessing. Just this week, at our one-week seminar, there were some twenty-one folks or so that showed up to take this class. One elderly gentleman came with his wife, and I had opportunity of presenting a class in the middle of the week on the mental equipment and how it works. And he came up to me after the class just aglow, saying, “My, how wonderful to see the way this works.” Well we’ve had that; we’ve all known that. We’ve known the excitement of seeing just the way it works. So with our conscious mind we’ve seen the way the design is and how things work, but we know that it really doesn’t work until that heart absolutely agrees, with a depth of feeling, deep feeling, for the truth, for the design, for the way things really work.
I think this fact of deep feeling needs to be reviewed by us. Human beings are afraid of having deep feeling, because they have had deep feelings about the wrong thing: “Every time I love I get hurt.” Well, without any baptism that’s true: every time we do, so called, love, we get hurt. But that isn’t the truth. The truth is: every time we love through the truth it’s wonderful, it’s heaven, and consequently, having been baptized by the water of truth, there is this need for deep feeling, to really, you might say, let something rip. Are we afraid of that? Are we afraid to really let something move in relationship to our expression? Well I would suggest that we should be hesitant about it if we haven’t received the baptism, but all of us have received it.
I remember, in a service some years back, Martin speaking about this. He used the analogy of our having been in the bathtub for a long time, and he thought it was about time we got out and dried up. Part of that drying-up process is allowing our feelings to be used under the control of the truth, so that that Great Spirit of our KING may find accurate expression in our living. I find in my own experience something of that wonderful depth of feeling of thankfulness, thankfulness for all that we have received and the careful preparation that the LORD has offered to us to bring us to this point where we may in fact serve Him once more, that mind and that heart may be used by the Spirit of the KING, used to reveal the truth which we are. How wonderfully good it is to find ourselves in this setting tonight knowing what we know, so that we may in fact offer that baptism to others.
As you know, I was recently in India. My what a marvelous open heart our Indian brethren have. It’s called the subcontinent, you know. And one of the things that our conscious mind needs to prove to our subconscious mind is the fact that it’s trustworthy. Our subconscious mind does not and has not trusted our conscious mind, and that’s true, I think, in relationship to the people in the subcontinent. I don’t think those who went there from this part of the world, and who properly represented the conscious mind, have offered the truth. I think there has been a lot of grabbing from the subcontinent. But the Indian people, symbolically representing the subconscious mind, are opening their hearts, and we’ve had opportunity to go down there to represent the truth. And when the truth is represented, believe me, they love it! I’m sure that in the days to come we will find many, many hundreds of these wonderful people coming our way; they can’t stay away. And we have the perfect setting for them; everything is prepared.
Driving into 100 Mile House this afternoon, seeing the snow, all the trees—what a wonderful feeling. I felt the presence of a womb, something protective, and it lifted up in my mind how the LORD had worked things out to put Martin in this particular spot away from the hustle and bustle, something protective. The LORD has not denied us anything. Everything that we’ve needed has been given to us, and so here we are with everything. But there is one thing that is needed, and that is that increased depth of feeling. This is where the power is. This is where the juice is. We need this depth of feeling for what we know, not taking anything for granted, but revealing the fact that we do love the LORD our God with all our heart and all our mind and all our strength and all our soul.
So I delight to be surrounded by friends, but if I wasn’t I would delight anyway. I delight to be on earth with you at this most marvelous time, doing what we came to do, bringing the Kingdom right where we are.
Michael Cecil — Beautiful words, Bill. As Bill just emphasized, he will represent the truth regardless of circumstance, and with a passion too. Because that is the fact, which we can readily acknowledge in the spirit of his presence, there is an element of valuable use for God on earth. I would trust myself to represent that same quality of absoluteness, come what may. To the extent that that is the fact, then there is a working association possible on earth between us.
Bill emphasized the provision which there has been over the years for us and for many people to come to a recognition of absoluteness. We would acknowledge absolute reliability of spirit which is brought to particular focus in Martin. If there is an effective instrument symbolized in the working together of Bill and myself, it is because of a clear orientation in that focus. That being the case all around, then we have three reliable factors that can be counted upon. What a beautiful thing is present on earth when there is a useful mechanism, mind and heart with one accord in one place, a vehicle developed for the expression of the Spirit of God, as may be appropriate.
Bill was mentioning something about trust. The world as we have known it has revealed a sorry sight between men and women, between the different aspects of humanity. There has been so little trust, so little reason for trust. Bill mentioned something about the way in which the Indian people along the way naturally opened up in trust to the British, but found that in various ways they were betrayed. This has been the story all over the world, really. There is an interesting analogy here in Bill and myself. Bill is from Boston, and I’m from Britain, at least partly. Some two hundred years ago there was a tea party where there was a certain statement of justifiable mistrust! Something different can be proved now. When this symbol of the conscious mind has found its orientation in the spirit of God then there is a factor of trustworthiness present, and if that is true of the symbol of the subconscious mind too there may be mutual ease.
In our Emissary body there has been some expression of concern amongst various ones, a comparison between what I do and what Bill does, and the feeling that Bill isn’t like Michael and Michael isn’t like Bill, and that is very suspicious. What ridiculous nonsense, really! I deeply appreciate what it is that Bill brings so vividly to focus. He spoke of passionate feeling. While Bill is more, he certainly is a representation of passionate feeling in the right direction, a representation of a true inspiration which is at work in the world, as we saw in our considerations this morning, perhaps largely at unconscious levels, but also nowadays made increasingly evident consciously too. And then there is that wondrous intuitive facility, where what is coming out of the future from God can be acknowledged perceptively. When the troubled heart has settled down there is a facility available for use. I really appreciate what is brought to focus in Bill in this regard. I wouldn’t say that I don’t have feeling or that I’m not intuitive, but there is something of particular emphasis here in Bill. Perhaps in a more measured, rational way there is something that I may add that Bill need not be so concerned about and then together there may be a whole. How ridiculous comparisons are! How necessary to the rich, rounded picture of God in the flesh we all are, and we are all different. We each have something unique to add to this tapestry of life, and our respect for one another in this regard is so vital.
I’m very aware of the need there is from a conscious standpoint to provide understanding, to provide enfoldment and respect to this other side of life and, above all, to provide a point that is trustworthy. I think men have concerned themselves unduly with the question as to whether they could trust women. The answer well might be “No.” But it’s an extraneous question. The real point is, “Can a man be trusted?” Is he trustworthy? Can he be counted upon to represent the truth of the spirit of God absolutely? If that is the case then we have something that might work on earth. I delight in the opportunity which is present to give loving encompassment to our worlds—I speak of my world and Bill’s world—something that may be healing to the people therein and may encourage the emergence of spiritual maturity.
In all of this there is a recognition that insofar as the two of us are concerned—I know Bill would agree with this—we have the opportunity of working closely with Martin, not just looking in responsive awe in his direction but present to work together. That really is the point of the whole operation. We are all here to work together to let this world be what it must be, and it is good to let the facilities come into place so that special work can be done.
I rejoice greatly tonight to say these things and to work with increasing effectiveness along with you to do the job for which we are here.
Martin Cecil — If two or three of you shall agree on earth, what miracles spring from this as it is so. This certainly does not mean that everybody else is excluded. It is because of this agreement in the all-inclusive spirit of the living God that everyone who is willing is included.
Human beings are so very petty at times, most of the time. This is so because of self-centeredness. Obviously, if there is an operational creation it will have a very varied composition. Even the things that man has made for his own enjoyment, for his own pleasure, have many working parts. There is considerable variety. Certainly this is true when we observe living human beings, even living human beings in the fallen state. It requires those who complement each other. By the way, I think I have to remind a good many people that there is a difference between compliment spelled with an “i” and complement spelled with an “e”. We don’t have to go around congratulating each other, that is, giving compliments to each other.
Something was said this morning about appreciation. There should naturally be a sense of appreciation in each person, a sense of appreciation to the Lord for the marvelous provision that He has made in so many ways so magnificently. And we become aware of all this. We’ve had the opportunity of participating in it. Where is cause for judgment? All judgment is basically judgment of the Lord: He apparently hasn’t been doing things right. Every complaint is a complaint about the Lord. Human beings imagine that they have not been treated justly. According to their view it may seem so, but who has been concerned with treating the Lord justly? That would require that human beings reveal the truth of themselves on earth. That’s the way the Lord created everybody. To take the attitude toward the Lord, “You haven’t created me right,” and to behave accordingly, is certainly establishing an injustice to the Lord, because the fact of the matter is He did a perfect job. Now human beings have turned around and say, “He didn’t. He made this mess. Look at us”—look at everybody else, for the most part!
The perfect state is present; let us not deny it. If we deny it we betray ourselves and betray the Lord. All things are the way they exactly should be. Justice prevails. Human beings get what’s coming to them. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord for justice. In the true design there is a sea of glass clear as crystal, the truth is clearly in evidence; it all works together to perfection. There is a fluid design to that working. That fluid design on earth requires people. It requires people who will let the fluid design move easily and naturally, complementing itself in whatever way is necessary. We all have some awareness of this, some experience of it perhaps, certainly some ideas about it. There is something to come down from God out of heaven into the earth, to be received because there is a facility to receive it. That facility puts in an appearance in our own experience. We are aware of it, even though we have done a good deal to frustrate it and perhaps continue to do a certain amount to frustrate it.
I am most thankful to the LORD for the evidences that have appeared to give confirmation to the truth. These evidences appear because there are those who are willing to let them appear, and when they do so the truth is confirmed. This evening particular emphasis has been placed upon these two points: Michael and Bill. Recently the conscious and unconscious aspects of mind have been under consideration so that we might align ourselves with the working of things. We can only do this because we make the approach from the standpoint of spiritual expression. We don’t try to make the mind work the way human beings try to make it work from below, try to get something out of the realm below. All the investigations that have been undertaken by the human mind have related to the things that are below: How do things work?—just looking at the things that don’t work for the most part or that don't work the way they should. They can’t work the way they should as long as human beings are not working the way they should. But the truth is confirmed in our own experience, and it is confirmed in a collective sense. This is so to the extent that we as individuals have taken responsibility for ourselves, each of us solely responsible for our own expression in life.
This doesn’t mean to say that we are independent of each other. Obviously we are part of a larger whole, and taking responsibility means that we cannot do anything without taking that whole into consideration. We can never take unilateral action, as human beings are inclined to do. They say to themselves, “This is my business.” Is it? It’s the Lord’s business and it includes the whole; therefore those who are (wholly) Holy unto the Lord in their living also include the whole. They are responsible for maintaining the true spirit, the expression of what is right in every circumstance, in every department of life, but at the same time taking into account the whole. One never acts just on the basis of one’s own view. If one acts that way one’s view will be distorted, because if it were clear one wouldn’t act that way. It always includes others. We are careful in this regard.
As there are those who are careful, who do accept this larger view, they emerge as points of focus. There have been those who complained that they weren’t given more responsibility. Well you have to be trustworthy presumably, first, and you can’t be trustworthy unless you have some awareness of the whole. The initial awareness of the whole is probably centered in taking into account two or three people who are next to you. That’s about all that many can encompass, and maybe they don’t do that too well. But having a view of the whole, we begin to see what is working from the standpoint of the spirit of God, and therefore are in position to know what is fitting. For the moment it requires quite a bit of work to make sure that all that is necessary is brought into the picture.
This might emphasize a point that I was touching upon this morning. There is this wholeness which needs to be encompassed. It takes all of us to do it but there are particular points of focus who rightly have the necessary vision of what it is that is required, so that much can be encompassed of which those who are not in that position are unaware. The vision of anyone in that position would be more encompassing than the vision of any other. The picture that needs to be seen is the Lord’s view, and we have the opportunity of sharing that. But we blot that out every time we become involved in our own self-centeredness, where we are not taking into account the whole, even though we don’t see the whole. Of course we don’t see the whole but it’s there nevertheless, and we’re all a part of it. We have the ability to encompass a certain segment of it, and that includes many other people; and we have to take them all into account, because, after all, this is all that the Lord has to work with.
I suppose one might be inclined to say, “Pity the poor LORD,” but for heaven’s sake, He has provided everything that is necessary, everything for all of us. Let us accept the fact of it and allow a meshing together that naturally occurs in the unfoldment of the fluid design. And this meshing is represented very beautifully, and has been this evening, by Michael and Bill. They are very different. Praise the Lord. Who wants duplicates? The representation is of something quite different: the conscious aspect of the mind, we say, and the unconscious aspect of the mind. The heart is included in both, by the way, but seeing that the unconscious mind occupies so much more volume, one might describe it I suppose, there is more heart there then. And these two complement each other. Why judge it? Let it be what it is. If we do that then we are liable to let ourselves be what we should be, but if we are judging others we’re never going to allow ourselves to be what we really are.
Now here is a third point standing here too, different from these two. Of course! It doesn’t mean that one is better than another. It simply means that there are those who have assumed the responsibility for which they are on earth, and that responsibility includes the natural complementing of one another. This is being done. Allow it to be so. I rejoice greatly that there is this focus of the mind of the Emissary body; only because there is this can the total mind of the Emissary body provide a focus for the mind of the whole body of humanity. Let us come out of the petty vision and begin to see things as they really are and the responsibility that we and others really carry, so that we don’t hide in the shadows but acknowledge the truth and reveal the truth in our living, that there may be agreement on earth as touching all those things for which we individually and all of us together are responsible. So may the restoration of mankind be brought to pass, not by might, nor by power, but by the spirit of the living God finding expression—free, strong, sure expression—on earth because there is the facility for this to take place. This is cause for great thanksgiving on the part of all those who have even the smallest sensing of these things. Isn’t it glorious beyond words to express? It certainly is from my standpoint. How about you? (There was expression of agreement from those present in the Chapel.)
Lillian Cecil — It is glorious beyond all words, Martin, to share this special hour. We rejoice in true design and with our arms of love we encompass, if we can, the three of you in this moment, that that true design on earth is kept where it should be safe in this holy place, in the holy place of our hearts.
Martin Cecil — It is to be kept holy, holy unto the Lord. It is holy unto the Lord, and those who offer themselves wholly unto the Lord keep this most holy place safe.
David Thatcher — Martin, I wish to express on behalf of many who haven’t expressed anything prior to this point in time in this setting, in representation of many in the conscious Emissary body. It’s a delight to see the ease with which you, Bill and Michael function together. It’s a delight to know more clearly than ever the ease and the power with which we move and which we can bring to focus and offer to you in representation of a world that is rapidly coming into the Lord’s hands. Praise the Lord.
Martin Cecil — We’re friends. We love each other. We enjoy each other. And this is representative of what is provided from the standpoint of the focus of the Emissary body. And it is this exactly which must be provided by the focus of the Emissary body for the whole body of mankind.
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An Unimaginable Transformation To Occur
Martin Cecil December 16, 1979
He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty. The Secret Place of the Most High could well correlate with the balance point; when we dwell there, then, we abide under the Shadow of the Almighty, the evidence of the Presence of the Almighty. That has been referred to as Shekinah. Shekinah is the Spirit of God, in combination with the fine vibrational substance of heaven. This fine vibrational substance, in combination with spirit, pours forth when the door is opened. Each one individually is the door when he or she comes to that balance point. It is a matter of dwelling, of staying put, exactly where we belong—namely this point of balance. There is properly a steadiness known and absolute trust. That absolute trust is a natural experience at the balance point. When we get away from the balance point, out a little on either limb, we do not find it so natural to trust; that is, to trust the Lord. We then begin to trust our mental processes and we consequently become subject to the devil once more. Dwelling at the balance point, in the Secret Place of the Most High, trust is natural; this is the point where knowing is the natural experience—knowing and trust are really two aspects of one thing.
When we assemble for a service, we have a very special opportunity to come to this balance point together and to dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High, finding ourselves consequently abiding under the Shadow of the Almighty—the Fire that Burns, the Light that Glows, the Cloud of Glory, are to be experienced. This is Shekinah. The reality of the Shadow of the Almighty is only known as the door is opened. The door is opened by reason of one’s own living expression. It is the expression of Shekinah that allows Shekinah to be known. It is the outpouring of the spirit that allows the spirit to be known. As long as Shekinah is locked behind the door human beings cannot know it, even though it is present. The opening of the door correlates with spiritual expression. The spiritual expression is the evidence of the fact that the door is opened. There is a pouring forth into the realm of the coarser levels of substance which are present here in the world.
Fear tends to put in an appearance when there is a recognition of the real transformation that must occur. Because fanatical human beings who have gone out on the spiritual limb have revealed themselves all too often as being crazy, there is a fear of what might be referred to as spiritual craziness. We are talking about coming back to the balance point, and it is at the balance point, where steadiness is a reality and where absolute trust is natural, that the door may be opened and the transformation occur. The transformation occurs by reason of what passes through the door, by reason of Shekinah: the outpouring of spirit through the fine vibrational substance into the coarser vibrational substance. That has a transforming effect upon the coarser vibrational substance, and also upon the structures that may be present in that coarser vibrational substance.
There is an unimaginable transformation to occur. Fear not. Don’t be afraid for what is happening. Stay in the point of steadiness in absolute trust. Whatever the circumstances, they have been brought to us so that the action of Shekinah might come to bear upon them. If we refuse to express Shekinah we don’t know it. If we refuse to express Shekinah we have erected a barrier in ourselves. It pushes us, with our barrier, out into the circumstances and we find ourselves more deeply embedded in the circumstances. We ourselves have produced the whole situation. The outpouring of Shekinah in the expression of life is the acknowledgment of the Collective Shekinah, for all people. It is only for all people if all those individuals who are the people accept that outpouring in their own living.
Let us see if we can expand our outlook a little, if we can see with a greater perspective. How quickly even those who have the opportunity of seeing with perspective revert into the myopic view of human nature. Obviously there is nothing that human beings can do to save the world. All they would be interested in doing anyway would be saving human nature, which has to pass away. There is something far vaster at work relative to what is happening on the surface of this little planet than is usually supposed, particularly by Christians, who seem to imagine that the salvation of man, whatever that means, is the whole purpose of the universe. How ridiculous!
There are those who have been a little concerned as to how what has been called the fall ever took place. It doesn’t seem reasonable to the human mind that it could happen. If man actually was a divine creation, how could he have messed things up so badly, contrary to the true outworking of things? We have been aware that there came a point in the experience of man on earth when the fall was a possibility. Man functioned for quite an extended period of time as Divine Man, and it was only relatively recently that the fall took place. Why then, if he had the experience of the wonder of the true state, would he choose to take advantage of the possibility of falling? Of course at that point he had not experienced the fallen state, so he did not know what that was. But there is something involved here which is far more, far greater than man.
The solar system is moving through space. It is also part of a galaxy which is also moving through space. There are a number of movements here, besides those closer to home, namely the earth moving around the sun. Because the sun is moving through space the earth is too, and of course the earth is rotating on its own axis. Let us consider the fact that the solar system is moving through space. In times past, space was looked upon as a more or less uniform vacuum. Nowadays they have discovered that it isn’t—there are variations, different vibratory states, in space through which the solar system passes, both on its own hook and because the galaxy is moving too. The variations in that vibratory condition in space were in fact what made possible the fall in the first place. It was recognized that there was a possibility here, and due warning was given in the matter. Evidently man fell, and we find ourselves in this rather wretched condition now. This condition is incapable of being compared to what was before.
So there was a period of time during this movement through the vibrational substance of space when it became possible for man to fall—and he fell. By the same token the solar system moves continuously, and at some point moves out of the vibrational substance of space which made possible the fall. Moving out of that vibrational substance the fallen state is no longer possible. Now this stretches the outlook a little, but it is in fact what brings to pass the restoration, at least we trust so. It certainly brings to pass the elimination of the fallen state. That is absolutely inevitable, because the fallen state cannot exist anymore in the vibrational substance of space into which the solar system is now moving, and no human beings have any control over that whatsoever.
We see the evidences of these things occurring on the surface of the earth, particularly in human experience. There is an intensification in every conceivable way. The end result of all this is the elimination of the fallen state. If all that human beings are aware of is the fallen state then presumably it is the elimination of human beings. God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should exhibit a willingness to leave the fallen state behind and move with what is moving by reason of God. Nothing moves at all without God, but it is a dimensional experience relative to the solar system and consequently to the earth.
The solar system has passed through a number of changes in this vibrational sense which have produced reactions of various sorts on the part of human beings on earth, and also changes of various sorts in the solar system itself. The idea of a new age is a faint touching, a sensing, of the fact that the solar system is moving into a different consistency of vibrational substance in space. This will happen. [greatcosmicstory.blogspot.com/coming-out-with-bang-from-from-martin.html] Nobody can stop it happening. The only question that arises is: How many human beings are going to be willing to move with what is moving, are going to be willing to let the human nature state be dissolved in their own experience and allow the changing vibrational experience to bring restoration, transformation?
Human beings were transformed in the downward path into something other than they were before. On the upward path they must be transformed again if they are to continue to exist. The only possibility of continued existence for human beings is in a transformed state. That transformed state is brought about by the release of Shekinah into the expression of living, regardless of the circumstances.
So there is something happening of vast proportions and we find ourselves in this situation on the surface of the earth. By reason of what has been happening we have come clear in varying degrees from the human nature state and consequently are in position to behold. Those who move with what is moving are the ones who make it possible for others to move with what is moving. They are the door to salvation then, and when others begin to move they in turn become the door to salvation and the way of restoration is made clear.
We have been looking at some things that are certainly unprovable by any human mind but nevertheless things that are knowable as there is in fact a movement with what is moving. That movement brings us to a place of balance, and in that place of balance we find ourselves to be the door of salvation to others; not that salvation is going to be handed to anyone on a silver platter, but experiencing the transformation ourselves the way is made clear for the experience of that transformation by others. It has to occur by their expression, just as it has occurred by our expression. It is not that anything can be handed from one person to another. Here is the Shekinah emerging on the basis of a willingness for that emergence to occur on the part of men and women. The way is clear. The change vibrationally speaking, from the standpoint of the movement of the solar system through space, offers the setting in which this transformation can occur. But by the same token it offers the setting by reason of which the dissolution of human nature occurs. We can take our pick!
It is occurring in our own experience, on the basis of emergence, without dissolving us. At any point of course a resistance may become firm enough toward what is happening to push us out of the picture, just the same as it may happen for others who do not have the opportunity that we have. Those others will have the opportunity that we have if we let it work for us; but you see a vast difference here between talking to people and telling them about something, and what is necessary—namely the actual experience of it. Maybe there is the necessity for someone to say something, but it is the actual willingness to yield to what is moving that allows for the experience of the transformation. It seems foolish that anyone would wish to buck that, but it is something that is done.
Seeing with this larger perspective, surely we may the more easily comprehend what is occurring in our own experience and what is occurring with respect to others round about us. There is something here much bigger than the whole human race, and yet the human race is offered the opportunity to participate in what is occurring. Whether they participate or not, and to what extent, will determine what happens in human experience. God is not willing that any should perish—amongst other things, I don’t suppose He is too interested in undertaking the creation of man again. Why bother? There are some around here, already made, who are capable of being restored, being transformed. We are here to let it happen.
But we are here to let it happen in the expression of our own living. We are not laying something on anybody else. We are opening a door for others, but what is happening is happening in our own experience, in our own flesh bodies, in all that we are, vibrationally speaking, as Shekinah comes forth, as the Spirit of God proceeds in its process of re-creation. How that happens is something about which the human mind knows very little. It may have some ideas as to what happens when a caterpillar is transformed into a butterfly. It knows that that happens. Well here is a rather greater transformation to occur, and the Spirit of God is perfectly capable of doing it and will do it. The transformation will occur. It is our responsibility to see that there is something still around after it has occurred.
I say these things simply that we might have a broader perspective and not get caught up still in human nature self-centeredness, which sees human things as being big, when they are virtually nothing. Let us participate in the creative cycles which you now have the opportunity of seeing are in operation far beyond the immediate human experience. But the immediate human experience is included in the operation; and being associated with this immediate human experience, it is wise for us to be aware of what is happening and exhibit an easy willingness to associate ourselves with what is happening.
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